Past opposition to mixed-race marriages similar to anti-gay marriage arguments now

I found Gary Varvel's June 28 cartoon very interesting. It was a clever metaphor to portray the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8 as part of the supporting tiers of a wedding cake, which topples as the Supreme Court takes chunks out of marriage laws.

Most interesting to me was the racial composition of the miniature bride and groom on top of the wedding cake - the bride is white, and the groom is black. A marriage like that was illegal in much of the United States until the Supreme Court struck down those laws not so long ago. And the arguments used to defend bans on mixed-race marriages sounded similar to the arguments used against gay marriage today.

I enjoyed the irony.

Stephanie Ferguson

Indianapolis

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Past opposition to mixed-race marriages similar to anti-gay marriage arguments now